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October 9, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 9, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Wing. Livingston. Seven miles northeast of Fairbury. Founded in 1883 by a man named Byrd. According to a local story, there was already a Byrd in Illinois so there ought […]

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October 8, 2008 (October 8, 2008)

The New York Review of Books praises “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”

Lincoln reviews

The October 23, 2008, issue of The New York Review of Books includes a dual review of Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen Guelzo and The […]

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October 8, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 8, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

My hometown! Park Forest. Cook, Will. Founded in 1946 as a residential community for returning veterans of World War II by Carroll F. Sweet and American Community Builders. The name […]

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October 7, 2008 (October 7, 2008)

David Wagoner featured on The Writer’s Almanac

poetry

“A Woman Feeding Gulls,” a poem from David Wagoner’s book Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems, was featured on the October 5, 2008, edition of Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. David […]

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October 7, 2008

Pilot program for e-textbooks

publishing

The University of Texas at Austin, in coordination with John Wiley & Sons, is testing an e-textbook program, reports today’s Inside Higher Ed. “Many observers, both in academe and in the publishing […]

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October 7, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 7, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Foosland [FOOS luhnd]. Champaign. Village (1959) seven miles southwest of Gibson City. Founded in 1874 and named for William Foos, an absentee landlord who owned some 3,500 acres in Champaign […]

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October 6, 2008

Laughter by Loyal Jones

author commentary music

When I received an advance copy of my book, I first thought of James “Goober” Buchanan, who had written me recently at age 100 to say he hoped to live to […]

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October 6, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 6, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Bug Tussle. Franklin. According to a local story, the community was named when a revival meeting attracted more june bugs than attendees, and the congregation spent most of the evening […]

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October 3, 2008

But I wanted that sentence to read ambiguously

publishing

In honor of Carol Betts’s retirement, I offer up a glowing example of how authors really do value their copy editors (via the New York Times): What My Copy Editor […]

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October 3, 2008

Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 3, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

Elizabeth. Jo Daviess. Village (1887) Twelve miles east-southeast of Galena. According to an Illinois state historical marker, in June 1832, at the height of the Black Hawk War, a group […]

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October 2, 2008

Nobody wants to take the last one

Getting to know Champaign-Urbana

All summer long several of our colleagues have shared lovely produce, most especially sweet grape tomatoes. So much produce was shared that some of it has sat for days abandoned […]

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October 2, 2008

Taking the monograph online

publishing

The Chronicle of Higher Education investigates two new digital models for academic presses. “Scholarly publishers are well aware that more and more readers and libraries want to get hold of monographs […]

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